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The Celts Are Coming, Hurrah!

Thu, 07/26/2012 - 9:08am
The Music Scene
By
Fred Baumgarten

My love affair with Celtic music began more than 30 years ago in a small church on Long Island, where the rising band, Silly Wizard, came to play.

That toe-tappingly infectious, virtuoso group of Scots — lead vocalist Andy M. Stewart, Phil Cunningham on accordion and his brother Johnny on fiddle, Martin Hadden on bass and keyboards, and Gordon Jones on guitar and bodhran (the handheld Celtic drum) — went on to become one of the greatest Celtic ensembles of all time.

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